“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(In ESP class for April 16, a student asked Seth to comment on “the differences between the male and female [human beings] as we understand them.” Seth’s answer was a long one. It clearly illuminated his material in this session, as can be seen in the excerpt I’ve put together for this presentation. [This sometimes happens in class: Seth will elaborate upon book information, or discuss it from a different viewpoint; this in turn makes Jane and me want to see such material used in the book.])

All time is simultaneous (Seth told the members of class), and so you are male and female at once.

In all religions, those that you did not officially adopt in your society, what you would think of as the female religions predominated. Those people did not progress in industrial terms because they were too well aware of their part in nature. They could not dissect it.

Think of your ideas about your own sexuality in connection with those about your being and consciousness. Regroup your ideas so that you automatically think of sexuality in relationship to your religions and sciences. You have associated the word “female” with the unconscious, while you have been working toward what you now think of as an egotistically based consciousness. There is more in what I am saying than you presently realize. You cannot, each of you, consider the real meaning of your own sexuality unless you understand your own religious history. Follow through, in your own minds, with your memories. Try to be honest with yourselves as to those early experiences in which you forced yourselves to behave differently than you were, because adults told you that you must … You had better understand the beautiful, unique quality of your own individuality lest you project upon the other sex — whichever sex you are — those abilities and qualities that you are afraid are your own, or project upon them those abilities and qualities that you wish you possessed and fear you do not.

The male-female tendencies at that time became psychically alienated from each other.* The differences were exaggerated. [...]